Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. http://www.venganza.org/
The a-hole whose dog keeps peeing in my building elevator.
Thomas Wolfe novels, anything by E.M. Forster, Craig Thomson, or James Kochalka, and any Disinfo book ever, cause those kids are so darned clever! [right now I'm reading: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]
Julia Child, Spalding Gray, Kermit the Frog, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Christopher Guest...